NOTE on “HOUSEKEEPING”: David Filer contacted me yesterday to say that Finishing Line Press only publishes when it has 55 orders for a book. Should you wish a copy of a book of poems by a Portland author (cover art by a Salem artist…ahem) you can order on line. An interesting sidelight is that all […]
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East Coast Sojourn…
Oh dear readers…or should I say “oh dear”, readers…the girl reporter has lost her camera so there will be no images of Honeoye Falls or Cobb’s Hill, you won’t be seeing Olana or the view of the Hudson river from Libby and Michael’s….not one of the many fantastic shots of Mass MOCA will appear here […]
Artweek…2011
Here’s a little story…two girls met in art class in 7th grade. They became friends. They dressed in black (like “beatniks”) and took the El to the Loop to the Art Institute to “hang out”…and many years later they began the annual “artweek” visitations. Sometimes in Carolyn’s studio in California, sometimes in mine in Salem. […]
Kitchen Transformation!
This is ABSOLUTELY the last fix-up project for the year…and the LAST time we ever paint a kitchen…we sincerely hope…. Phil was out at the beach and had two extra days…we had left-over subway tile…the rest is history. We’ve had the beach house for 20 years, the wall paper was old and stained then…the cupboards […]
Sketchbook Project
Nan sent me a link to the Sketchboook Project for 2012 and I decided to try it…the idea is fun. So I paid my money and my sketch book arrived yesterday…it’s pretty dinky…take a look…here it is compared to the one I’ve been carrying around… and there are rules…the most important one being that the […]
Inadvertent Moments
I was reading an article in the Thursday NYTimes by Roberta Smith this morning about “inadvertent galleries” around Manhattan…empty showcase windows, a parking area under the High Line, etc. So feeling the need for a little drama, I hit on the idea of giving you a sort of Aaron Siskind-esque tour of some of the […]
1658 Court Street, Historical View Continues…
The porch history post got me looking at old photos, and so…to keep the thought going, here is the historical –mid-historical—and current view of 1658 Court Street. Photos do not exist of the rear of the house when it was on State Street, or at the corner of 17th and Court (it was moved twice…sort […]
The Quilt Roundup…Part One
Kate Speckman and I are curating a show of quilts at Bush Barn Art Center opening September 9th (“Bits and Pieces: Intuitive Quilting from the Pacific Northwest”, which will feature three quilts by the Gee’s Bend Quilt Collective, quilts by 5 invited quilters, and quilts by 6 juried entrants. To that end I’ve begun rounding […]
The leafy canopy…
So the very next morning after Alisa’s dinner I heard the now-all-too-familiar sound of chain saws buzzing. I ran out to the deck only to discover a guy in the 40 foot tall walnut tree in the yard behind us. I quickly snapped a picture of the tree before he got started… and ever hopeful […]
Alisa Cooks up a storm…
Alisa Alexander (former student…now friend) came over last night and cooked us a DELICIOUS and lovely meal. Alisa is half Thai and the meal included spring rolls with her Mom’s peanut sauce and some yummy corn relish…Here’s how it went: (this is what the rice wrapper looks like before she soaks it…) all of the […]
On The Way 